"John Pote" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > I would wish to secure this data gathering against crashes of the OS,
I have read about people running *nix servers a year or more without stopping. > hardware failures To transparently write to duplicate disks, lookup RAID (but not level 0 which I believe does no duplication). >and power outages. The UPSes (uninterruptable power supplies) sold in stores will run a computer about half an hour on the battery. This is long enough to either gracefully shut down the computer or startup a generator. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
